Monday, 18 May 2026

The Barndoor Stickers

It's accidentally a Kev Adams sculpt month. There was no intention for my painting to work out in this order, but here's a bunch of goblins to follow last week's pig orcs.

These fun sculpts are courtesy of Old School Miniatures (https://www.oldschoolminiatures.co.uk/greenskin-regiments) and I bought and started them a couple of years ago, then stopped. Why? I've had them sat there for a while, but talked myself into a corner about doing the best I possibly could with them, but a  challenge of handsculpted models is some of the details simply aren't that crisp, with feet and hands often being a victim of this, but I was determined to do the best I could.


This was an exercise in getting over myself. In reality just painting them green and adding some colours to the less interesting elements such as shoes, feet, bags, pouches et al. On sculpts like this it's the head and hands that matter, with the odd detail here and there to pick out and celebrate.

It would be difficult to share palette, receipes etc. for this group, as I would simply pick a colour that looked appropriate and throw it at a few models until I felt it was good enough. No formulas or real planning and thinking to this section.

The classic red sun design on the banner is freehanded. It's a skill I need to practice more, and this was an ideal surface for that. The chromed shield on the warlord was a test piece showing a friend how to achieve a sky/earth chrome effect, and I just kept it there, despite it not fitting into the scheme of everything else.









 

 

Monday, 11 May 2026

Pig Orcs, The Swine Herd

These beauties are from Dragon Bait (https://www.dragon-bait-minis.com/) to accompany the Pig Orc Shaman I painted a few weeks ago. It's the same Zorn scheme for the models, albeit a different scheme for the bases as you can't achieve that green-blue hue with a limited palette. 


Here's a "warts and all" set of photographs of these beauties from the front and back. I've done it in order of my own personal preference as some were more successful than others, and honestly on some of them I did only the loosest painting for the unimportant areas. Small pouches? The mildest of highlights, if at all. Finger and toenails? A touch of grey and nothing more. Legs? Well, a bit of a skintone should suffice.

The focal points are head, chest and weapons and tightening the painting on those areas was really the goal for this project. I also aimed for a parody of Roman legionary shields as I felt it suited them, and created a touch of uniformity in an otherwise disparate group. Such characterful sculpts and an enormous amount of fun to paint them.